Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Windmill
Stephenstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stephenstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- ‘Pigeon Ho.’
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59768, -6.19195
- SMR number
- DU005-223----
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Rocque’s 1760 Map of County Dublin shows a ‘Windmill’ on the N side of a road, opposite the ‘The White Hart’ inn (DU005-054----). On this map the windmill is shown as a tower with a conical-shaped roof and four sails, standing on top of a hill (Rocque 1762). The first edition of the OSi 6-inch map shows a ‘Pigeon Ho.’ at this location. It is possible that the windmill was converted into a dovecote or pigeon house in the late 18th or early 19th-century.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
References
Rocque, J. 1762 An Actual Survey of the County of Dublin, on the same Scale, as those of Middlesex, Oxford, Berks and Buckinghamshire. Available at https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/LBC-Rocque-3 [Accessed 05 September 2025]
Nearby in the register
- Innunder 1 mi
- Ring-ditchunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.